Chris

I am on a school trip to paris right now for winter break and some people I have had to be in a group with I learned bought 2 bottles of alcohol and are planning on drinking them new years eve. I am a good kid and consider myself a highly moral person that is against drinking, smoking, and doing drugs of any kind no matter if they are for recreation or whatever else people use them for. Im also quite introverted so I dont have very many friends on this trip. I understand it is their choice if they want to drink but at the same time I am now involved and have knowledge of their activity which makes me guilty by association. I have extremely good relationships with my teachers and respect them greatly but I also feel guilty for being labeled as a "snitch" for getting them in hot water with my teachers making them angry at me for getting them in trouble for their decision to buy the drink in the first place. Could anyone give me some advice as to how to deal with this?

You should understand the counter intuitive nature of "a" in the graph of f(x+a) AND understand why the "b" value in "f(x)+b" not result in a counter-intuitive shift?

I am so confused how do I answer this?

Let me just say I m very unfortunate when it comes to my love life. I am a junior in highschool and have never had a girlfriend. Whenever I get a crush on someone which has happened only a few times in my life I will have an instant overwhelming attraction to them but act distant when I am around this person never actually starting a friendship but just watching occasionally from afar longing for a chance encounter to talk to this person without seeming desperate or random which in turn causes them to become the center of my world in my head creating an imaginary relationship of what could potentially be making me become obsessed with my crush until I lose hope for the last one a new angel comes along. For some reason I cannot just go up to a girl I like and talk to them, it has to be by coincidence otherwise I would be revealing all my cards before I had the chance to play them giving all the power to the girl while putting me at their mercy. I always feel like I want the girl to know how I feel but I am afraid of giving her the only thing in the world that can actually hurt me; my feelings. Is it strange to act this way??? If so how can I change to become better at starting a relationship without messing it up?

Its the eve of the SAT and I don t know what to do. I have barely studied for the test. On the PSAT I got a score of 940 and have not done much about this exam since then except for a few practice tests. I wasnt sure how or when to begin practice for it and now I m taking the test tomorrow and Im freaking out. I get straight A s on my report card and Im afraid I wont get a score high enough to get into the colleges I wish to apply to next year(I m a junior). What should I do in this situation?

We live in a time where people believe every belief and idea should be acknowledged and is ok to have making all sense of established purpose of what is real and what is not fade away causing mass depression, loss of meaning to life, and a mirage of order disguised as chaos making our world a realm where the truth no longer exists in the minds of men because every person has their own truth which creates a pardox because how can everyone have their own truth if only one actual truth exists?

I met these people a few years ago in freshmen year of high school and I became quote on quote "friends" with them because I felt like no one really wanted to be my friend because of my shy attitude toward socializing that I have somewhat changed over this year. I didn't realize it at first but these people are the most negative creatures I have ever been in contact with. All they ever talk about are nonproductive, dumb things that are disgusting to me and frankly I feel they are not positively influencing my life. These people destroy my confidence with meeting people because of how conformed they are to the everyday routine of making everything go in the same order, the same way every day and I'm sick of it. I feel like I cannot branch out my connections and explore new relationships because of these people and this makes me very angry and depressed with myself. The problem is I don't know how to stop being friends with them because I am an introverted person and I feel that I will be friendless and completely alone if I choose to leave this group because I have never really belonged anywhere at my my school except in the classroom where I excel with grades. I have to see these people everyday in most of my classes so its not like I can just avoid them. I'm really bad at building connections with others but it's something that I desperately need to make my life better so can anyone give me some suggestions as to what I should do?

I'm a Junior in Highschool and on the first day I met this girl named Ashley. When I first saw her I felt something different that I have never felt toward anyone, an instant

connection, like she was the only thing that mattered to me in the world. you know same old same old as with every crush in the history. Anyways I got her number a few weeks into school when I finally got the nerve to approach her and I was happy for the first time in my life. Later on I found out on social media that she was already in a long term relationship with someone who had graduated last year and is now in college which pretty much just made my whole world crash making me want scream, cry, go to sleep and never wake up. I found out they have been together for 2 and a half years which really shot down my confidence because of the strength of the relationship they are in, furthermore her boyfriend is more athletic then I am, taller than I am, more active than I am, probably smarter then I am to and overall leads a happier life than I could ever lead for myself because of who I am and what I was born into and I just feel I can't compete with that. It makes me feel really depressed because I want to be all of those things for Ashley, I want to be the guy that takes care of her, journeys life with her, makes her happy...but I can't do that because she is with someone else and is happy with someone else. Now everyday I have to live the pain over and over seeing her everyday what can I do?

Everything that is important for me to succeed in I never win. Relationships, sports, games, and just competition in general. I realize that there will always be someone one step ahead of me in everything I do, I know there is no way to prevent that however, I am just tired of losing at life and need advice. People trample all over me and it makes me feel so insignificant and weak and I am tired of it. The problem is I don't know how to get out of this dilemma that has been with me my entire life which has made me severely depressed for the past couple years, help?

I'm a junior in high school, I take AP classes and work on homework for hours when I get home. When I go to school to talk about the work from the night before about how long it took me to do my friends say it only took them like twenty minutes to complete or some bs like that and they get full credit on the assignment. Frankly I don't understand, it makes me feel like I am less intelligent than they are which makes me feel bad about myself for not finishing as fast as them. I feel like it is race to see who can finish work the fastest or something not just in homework but also essays, tests, and classwork. Can someone help me understand why things seem to be this way?

First I am 17 and I have only had feelings for only a few girls my entire life. If I don't feel a connection to a girl when I first encounter them then I don t pursue them. I have never had real friends that were girls as I seem to be so conceited that I only view girls as potential romantic partners. Anyways These five girls span out over years until the present and everyone of them has ripped my heart to pieces which has caused me to become cold and untrusting toward people in general, why do I react this way toward rejection?

When I really like a girl I never show enough interest or emotion because Im afraid of going overboard causing her to reject me and think I m a creep which I know I m not but it still makes me depressed if they think that about me because I cant really fix things after that or when Im in a debate with someone I have trouble making arguments about specific topics making me become tongue tied and at a loss for words. This also affects my friendships because I dont talk much or have much to really contribute to conversations a lot of the time as I am constantly thinking about other things. Why is expressing how I feel so difficult for me? It depresses me because I dont have many friends and it limits my skill when it comes to girls I have big crushes on which has only happend to me a few times in my life. Can anyone give me some advice? I would really appreciate it.

So I have a crush on this girl that I have tennis practice with and I got her number. I found out she had a boyfriend much later after I went to her place to play tennis with her when I asked her to my homecoming dance which she accepted to go to as friends with me. I texted her about Why I asked her to the dance because I liked her Now every couple days I sent her a few texts like hey, how's it going, etc. you know just general friendly questions but she always just avoids me by making excuses like "oh sorry I'm busy" or she is with her boyfriend which I became kind of depressed about. Now my crushes boyfriend texted me after I didn't get a response from her about weather she wanted to play tennis next week and he was up in my case about me liking her even though I never even talked to him which led to me assume that my crush talked to him about how she wants me to leave her alone or something so I stood my ground and made this strong explanation as to why I was texting her and how if she had a problem with my texts she could talk to me about it herself. I didn't get a response from her or her boyfriend after that. Can anyone help me out? What's going to happen? I see her every Monday for tennis practice.

I've been very depressed lately because I found out the girl I had a crush on had a boyfriend and didn't like me back. The problem is she is all I think about all day and night and it really depresses me to think about her with another guy but it won't ever leave my thoughts. I cry about it at night sometimes and bottle up all my feelings during the day that make me comtemplate her tell I reach the point where I get thoughts of suicide, they are that extreme. No one will listen to my problems because this girl is all I talk about and about how I'm depressed about it. Can someone please help me?:(

I really like this girl lets call her Jane, this past Friday we played tennis together at her house at my request which she happily accepted to. I met her parents and they were very nice people. We didn't really hang out or talk much we just played tennis which kind of bummed me out because I wanted to learn more about her, anyways after the game as I was about to head home because it was getting late I asked her if she would go with me to my home coming dance which was a week away and she didn't even hesitate she accepted but said we will go as friends because she has a boyfriend in holland. A continent away, it's laughable I know. That hurt me a bit because I didn't think she had a boyfriend but anyways I blew it off because I was happy she accepted my invitation to come with me. The problem is she doesn't go to my school and the dance is on the 10th a week from that day. I tried texting her but She hasn't contacted me since Friday with any questions about the dance and I'm worried she may not have enough time to get ready with her dress etc. I don't even know if she had plans that day, she just said she would go with me. Should I call her and sort this out? What should I do?

I am the secretary of my highschool

Interact club which deals with community service and helping people. I have been in it since the ninth grade and recently became an officer this year. Since I am an officer now I feel my opinions should matter to the other officers of the club but they don't really, I feel like I am just at meetings for show and have nothing to say because they don't give me anything to tell the rest of the club members. I feel like I am a minority of the officers where they all just order me around to slave away on pointless work they don't even use because I am the secretary. I try being nice and friendly but they don't want to be friends, it's just business. Now they discuss meetings without me because I feel as though they feel I have nothing to really contribute to the club so they don't need me and frankly I am sick of feeling insignificant amoung my fellow officers. Anyways I can go on and on but I was wondering is it right of me to leave the club if I don't want to be in it anymore even though I am an officer? Can this affect colleges opinion of me? Will they hate me for leaving? Can someone please give me some advice as to what a I should do? I need help.

I used to take the regular bus home last year and it was cool, but now this year my school makes me take the handicap bus home and I dont understand why. Im not a handicap person or have any disablitites, so I feel very uncomfortable with all these people the school makes me take the bus home with. I think its because of the driver routes due to me being the only person who lives at a certain location in the district but that not a very good excuse to me. i know I shouldnt mind riding with them but honestly it just bothers me, and Im afraid of people making fun of me if I take this bus. is the school allowed to make me do this? I know I sound like a horrible person for saying this but Can someone give me some advice as to what I should do?